Awards and distinctions ‒ TRANSP-OR ‐ EPFL

2024

Negar Rezvany: Best Paper Award; Institution: European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART); Date: June 20, 2024

2023

Janody Pougala: Best Paper Award; Institution: European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART); Date: September 08, 2023; Click here for more info

2022

Negar Rezvany: PhD mobility award 2022; Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE); Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.; Date: November 18, 2022; Click here for more info
Janody Pougala: PhD mobility award 2022; Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE); Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.; Date: June 29, 2022; Click here for more info

2021

Selin Atac: PhD mobility award 2021; Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE); Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.; Date: July 06, 2021; Click here for more info

2020

Melvin Wong: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars and Artists; Institution: Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS); Description: Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).; Date: May 12, 2020
Michel Bierlaire: Impactful Research Award; Institution: Zephyr Foundation; Description: The Impactful Research Award is given to an individual or team of researchers for a research project that has had the most [relatively recent] impact on bettering the travel analysis field for the public good.; Date: January 13, 2020; Click here for more info

2018

Virginie Lurkin: ENAC Polysph�re 2018; Institution: EPFL; Description: Every year, during the Graduation Ceremony, the students honour the best teacher of each school with an award called "Polysph�re". This prize is the greatest award a professor can receive directly from students at EPFL.; Date: October 06, 2018
Yuki Oyama: The EuroTechPostdoc Fellowship; Institution: The EuroTechPostdoc Programme; Description: The EuroTechPostdoc Programme provides international research and career development opportunities for 80 high potential doctoral graduates. It is one of the first cross-country fellowship programmes co-funded by the European Union�s Horizon 2020 programme.; Date: July 23, 2018
Yuki Oyama: Young Researcher's Paper Award; Institution: The City Planning Institute of Japan; Description: The City Planning Institute of Japan awards Young Researcher's Paper Award to individuals who have recently published research articles with remarkable prospects for urban planning.; Date: June 01, 2018; Click here for more info
Riccardo Scarinci: Global Transport Hackathon Dubai. Fast Moving Walkways for a sustainable future.; Institution: Roads and Transport Authority of the Emirate of Dubai (RTA) and Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation, with the support of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP); Date: April 22, 2018; Click here for more info

2017

Yuki Oyama: Best Dissertation Prize; Institution: The Kometani-Sasaki Fund, Institute of Systems Science Research; Description: The Kometani-Sasaki Fund, established by the Institute of Systems Science Research, Japan, to honor the achievements of Prof. Eiji Kometani and Prof. Tsuna Sasaki, has provided the Kometani-Sasaki Prize together with encouragement of 1,000,000 JPY for the excellent works in the field of traffic engineering and transportation planning research, since 2005.; Date: December 01, 2017; Click here for more info
Meritxell Pacheco: PhD mobility award 2017; Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE); Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.; Date: August 09, 2017; Click here for more info
Riccardo Scarinci: European Transport Innovation Challenge Winner, creating innovative and sustainable mobility solutions; Institution: European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, Strasbourg, France; Date: June 19, 2017; Click here for more info
Virginie Lurkin: Best Presentation Award at AGIFORS Scheduling and Strategic Planning Study Group meeting; Institution: The Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS); Description: The Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS) is a professional society dedicated to the advancement and application of Operational Research within the airline industry. The membership consists of Operational Research professional employed by recognized civil airlines and related industries and correspondents keenly interested in the application of Operational Research to aviation problems.; Date: May 18, 2017

2016

Virginie Lurkin: Best Dissertation Prize; Institution: The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS; Description: The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR).; Date: November 12, 2016
Carolina Osorio Pizano, Michel Bierlaire: Outstanding Paper in Urban Transportation Planning and Modeling; Institution: Transportation Science and Logistics Society, INFORMS; Date: November 10, 2016
Meritxell Pacheco: V Abertis International Research Award; Institution: International Abertis Chairs Network; Description: The Abertis International Research Prize in Transportation is awarded among the pool of national winning projects of the International Abertis Chairs Network.; Date: October 14, 2016; Click here for more info
Riccardo Scarinci, Iliya Markov, Michel Bierlaire: Green Transportation Award, for the extended abstract and presentation "Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways". Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis TRISTAN IX, 12-17/06/2016 Oranjestad, Aruba.; Date: June 16, 2016; Click here for more info
Meritxell Pacheco: XIII Abertis Prize for Management of Transportation Infrastructures; Institution: Abertis-UPC Chair; Description: The Abertis Prize for research in management of transportation infrastructures is aimed at studies and unpublished research conducted by students at Spanish universities that address various aspects related to the management of transportation infrastructures and services.; Date: May 24, 2016; Click here for more info
Shadi Sharif Azadeh: EU-Marie Curie EPFL fellowship; Date: May 01, 2016; Click here for more info

2015

Antonin Danalet: Second Prize in the Image category of the 2015 ACCES Visualization Contest; Description: Computed-generated visualization of scientific and engineering data, whether originating from numerical simulation or experimentation, can convey important technical information but also reveal original and sometimes surprising visual aspects. The ACCES Visualization Contest is aimed at fostering interest in the use of visualization by encouraging the insightful and visually-engaging presentation of scientific and engineering data. The contest is open annually for contributions from students and post-docs within the School of Engineering (STI) and the School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (EPFL). A total of 55 entries were submitted to the 2015 ACCES Visualization Contest, 35 in the Image category and 20 in the Animation category.; Date: May 21, 2015; Click here for more info

2013

Tom�s Robenek: Best Master Thesis 2012; Institution: Swiss Operations Research Society; Description: Every year, the Swiss Operations Research Society proposes a prize of 1000 CHF to reward an outstanding theoretical or applied Diploma Thesis in the field of Operations Research. Tomas' thesis, entitled "Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem in Bulk Ports Using Column Generation" won the prize for 2013. It was carried out at the Transport and Mobility Laboratory, EPFL as his Erasmus leave from the Transport Department at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and sponsored by the Zeno-Karl Schindler Foundation. The research was supervised by Nitish Umang (EPFL), prof. Michel Bierlaire (EPFL) and prof. Stefan Ropke (DTU).; Date: May 03, 2013
Antonin Danalet: ENAC Research Day 2013 Doctoral poster award - 3rd prize; Institution: School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL; Description: The Research Commission of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) has organized a poster competition for doctoral students in the context of the 2013 Research Day. The selection procedure, led by the ENAC Research Commission, consisted in selecting around thirty projects based on submitted project abstracts. Accepted projects were exhibited at the Research Day and participated in the poster competition. Antonin Danalet's poster, about bayesian estimation of pedestrian activities using sensors data, won the 3rd prize.; Date: April 23, 2013; Click here for more info
Evanthia Kazagli: Best Master Thesis; Institution: Swedish Operations Research Association; Description: The prize of the Best Master Thesis in the field of Operations Research is awarded every year by the Swedish Operations Research Association to encourage the students working in the field and to help disseminate high-quality thesis. Eva's thesis, entitled "Arterial Travel Time Estimation from Automatic Number Plate Recognition Data", that was elaborated in the Division of Traffic and Logistics, Dept. of Transport Science at KTH, and supervised by Prof. Haris Koutsopoulos, won the prize for 2012.; Date: February 26, 2013
Antonin Danalet: Invited participation in Global Young Scientist Summit, shortlisted for the Singapore Challenge; Institution: Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF); Description: Invited to the 2013 Global Young Scientist Summit (GYSS) in Singapore, attended by internationally eminent scientists and technology leaders, including ten Nobel prize winners and a Fields medalist. Shortlisted for the Singapore Challenge 2013 "Innovation for Future Cities" about envisioning opportunities for sustainable development in cities with dense populations and heavy demands on infrastructure, with a white paper on Walkable Future Cities.; Date: January 25, 2013; Click here for more info

2012

Carolina Osorio Pizano: EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award; Institution: European Association of Operational Research Societies; Description: The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis in Operational Research defended in the countries having an OR society that is member of the EURO.; Date: July 11, 2012; Click here for more info

2011

Aur�lie Glerum: PhD Mobility Award; Institution: Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL; Date: December 20, 2011; Click here for more info
Niklaus Eggenberg: Best PhD Thesis Prize; Institution: Swiss Operations Research Society; Description: Every three years, the Swiss Operations Research Society proposes a prize to reward an outstanding theoretical or applied Ph.D. Thesis in the field of Operations Research.; Date: June 30, 2011
Carolina Osorio Pizano: Graduate Student Best Paper Award; Institution: Transportation Research Forum; Description: Carolina Osorio received the Graduate Student Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) during the annual meeting that took place in Long Beach, California, March 10-12, 2011 for the paper "A simulation-based optimization framework for urban traffic control".; Date: March 10, 2011

2010

Niklaus Eggenberg: Honorable mention in Dissertation Award; Institution: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS); Description: The Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS awards a prize for the best dissertation in any area related to aviation OR (air traffic management OR and airline OR).; Date: November 08, 2010; Click here for more info
Aur�lie Glerum: Best Masters Thesis Award; Institution: Swiss Operations Research Society; Description: The prize of the Best Masters Thesis in the field of Operations Research is awarded every year by the Swiss Operations Research Society. Her thesis is entitled "Markov Decision Processes for Services Opportunity Pipeline Optimization".; Date: September 10, 2010; Click here for more info
Ilaria Vacca: ENAC Research Day 2010 Doctoral poster award - 2nd prize; Institution: School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL; Description: The Research Commission of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering has organized a poster competition for doctoral students in the context of the 2010 Research Day on Living with Risks : How to Build New Forms of Expertise. More than 70 posters have been prepared and evaluated. Ilaria Vacca, who is doing her PhD in our laboratory, received the second prize of this competition for her poster on the optimization of container terminal operations.; Date: June 09, 2010; Click here for more info
Ilaria Vacca, Matteo Salani: Ranked 16th in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2010; Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Giallombardo, G., Moccia, L., Salani, M., and Vacca, I. (2010). Modeling and Solving the Tactical Berth Allocation Problem, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 44(2):232-245. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2009.07.003; Date: May 29, 2010; Click here for more info

2009

Emma Frejinger: 2008 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize; Institution: International Association for Travel Behaviour Research; Description: This prestigious prize recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in the area of travel behavior research; Date: December 18, 2009; Click here for more info
Emma Frejinger, Michel Bierlaire: Ranked first in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for July-September 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Frejinger, E., Bierlaire, M., and Ben-Akiva, M. (2009). Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modeling, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 43(10):984-994.; Date: October 01, 2009; Click here for more info
Emma Frejinger, Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 21 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for April-June 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Frejinger, E., Bierlaire, M., and Ben-Akiva, M. (to appear). Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modeling, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (accepted for publication on March 03, 2009); Date: June 21, 2009; Click here for more info
Thomas Robin, Gianluca Antonini, Michel Bierlaire, Javier Cruz: Ranked 1st in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Robin, T., Antonini, G., Bierlaire, M., and Cruz, J. (2009). Specification, estimation and validation of a pedestrian walking behavior model, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 43(1):36-56. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2008.06.010; Date: March 31, 2009; Click here for more info
Ricardo Hurtubia: Ranked 3rd in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Martinez, F., Aguila, F., and Hurtubia, R. (2009). The Constrained Multinomial Logit Model: A Semi-Compensatory Choice Model, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 43(3):365-377. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2008.06.006; Date: March 31, 2009; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 9th in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Fosgerau, M., and Bierlaire, M. (2009). Discrete choice models with multiplicative error terms, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 43(5):494-505. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2008.10.004; Date: March 31, 2009; Click here for more info
Gianluca Antonini, Michel Bierlaire, Mats Weber: Ranked 12th in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2009; Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Antonini, G., Bierlaire, M., and Weber, M. (2006). Discrete choice models of pedestrian walking behavior, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 40(8):667-687. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2005.09.006; Date: March 31, 2009; Click here for more info
Arnaud Vandaele: ORBEL Award; Institution: The Belgian Operations Research society; Description: The ORBEL award, organised by the Belgian Operations Research society (ORBEL), is bestowed on the author(s) of a scientifically oriented student's thesis (with the exception of PhD theses). The criteria for judgement are based on the efficiency and effectivity of the scientific approach applied to solve the problem under study. The author(s) should put emphasis on the application of existing methods in new areas or on the application of new solution methods for models recognised as useful for solving real-life management problems: therefore, actual collaboration with industry during the thesis elaboration will be one of the selection criteria.; Date: February 06, 2009; Click here for more info

2008

Thomas Robin, Gianluca Antonini, Michel Bierlaire, Javier Cruz: Ranked 1st in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for October-December 2008; Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Robin, T., Antonini, G., Bierlaire, M., and Cruz, J. (2009). Specification, estimation and validation of a pedestrian walking behavior model, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 43(1):36-56. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2008.06.010; Date: December 31, 2008; Click here for more info
Emma Frejinger: Dissertation Prize; Institution: Transportation Science & Logistics Society, INFORMS; Description: This is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area.; Date: October 13, 2008; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire, Emma Frejinger: Ranked 2 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part C for January-March 2008; Institution: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies; Description: Bierlaire, M., and Frejinger, E. (2008). Route choice modeling with network-free data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 16(2):187-198.; Date: March 31, 2008; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 4 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2008; (with D. Bolduc and D. McFadden); Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Bierlaire, M., Bolduc, D., and McFadden, D. (2008). The estimation of Generalized Extreme Value models from choice-based samples, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 42(4):381-394.; Date: March 31, 2008; Click here for more info

2007

Emma Frejinger: Neil Mansfield Award; Institution: Association for European Transport; Description: Each year, the Association for European Transport makes a number of prestigious awards to recognise the best papers presented at the European Transport Conference. Papers considered for these awards are reviewed by a subject-panel made up of senior academics and professionals from across the transport community. The awards include the Neil Mansfield Award for the Best Paper by a sole author aged 35 or under.; Date: October 17, 2007; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 13 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for April-June 2007; (with M. Fosgerau); Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Fosgerau, M., and Bierlaire, M. (2007). A practical test for the choice of mixing distribution in discrete choice models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 41(7):784-794.; Date: June 30, 2007; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 5 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for April-June 2007; (with E. Abbe and T. Toledo); Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Abbe, E., Bierlaire, M., and Toledo, T. (2007). Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 41(7):795-808.; Date: June 30, 2007; Click here for more info
Ilaria Vacca: Raeli graduation award; Institution: Tor Vergata University, Roma,Italy; Date: June 27, 2007; Click here for more info
Emma Frejinger, Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 13 in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for July-September 2007; Institution: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Description: Frejinger, E., and Bierlaire, M. (2007). Capturing correlation with subnetworks in route choice models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 41(3):363-378.; Date: March 31, 2007; Click here for more info

2006

Michel Bierlaire, Frank Crittin: Best Paper Award,; Institution: Transportation Science & Logistics Society, INFORMS; Description: Bierlaire, M., and Crittin, F. (2004). An efficient algorithm for real-time estimation and prediction of dynamic OD table, Operations Research 52(1):116-127.; Date: November 06, 2006; Click here for more info
Gianluca Antonini: Honorable mention in the 2005 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize; Institution: The International Association for Travel Behaviour Research; Date: October 05, 2006; Click here for more info
Matteo Salani: Ranked fourth in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Discrete Optimization for July-September 2006; (with G. Righini); Institution: Discrete Optimization; Description: Righini, G., and Salani, M. (2006). Symmetry helps: Bounded bi-directional dynamic programming for the elementary shortest path problem with resource constraints, Discrete Optimization 3(3):255-273.; Date: September 30, 2006; Click here for more info
Gianluca Antonini, Michel Bierlaire: Ranked first in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for April-June 2006; (with M. Weber); Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Antonini, G., Bierlaire, M., and Weber, M. (2006). Discrete choice models of pedestrian walking behavior, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 40(8):667-687.; Date: June 30, 2006; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked 15th in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part A for April-June 2005; (with S. Hess and J. Polak); Institution: Transportation Research Part A; Description: Hess, S., Bierlaire, M., and Polak, J. (2005). Estimation of value of travel-time savings using Mixed Logit models, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 39(3):221-236.; Date: June 30, 2006; Click here for more info
Michel Bierlaire: Ranked third in the TOP 25 hottest articles of Transportation Research Part B for January-March 2006; (with A. Daly); Institution: Transportation Research Part B; Description: Daly, A., and Bierlaire, M. (2006). A General and Operational Representation of Generalised Extreme Value Models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 40(4):285-305.; Date: March 31, 2006; Click here for more info
Gianluca Antonini: EPFL PhD Prize; Institution: EPFL; Description: The jury has proceeded in two steps, selecting 8 PhD theses during the first round. Two of these were granted the prizes and two others were transferred to the Chorafas Foundation Award. However, the jury felt that the other 4 candidates also deserve some visibility since after all their scientific work is (according to the opinion of the jury) ranking among the best 4 % (8 out of 250) PhD theses awarded by EPFL in 2005.; Date: January 20, 2006; Click here for more info